February 1, 2007
Bessie gets her toes done
Cow Tipping - normally an activity reserved for disenchanted youth in the sleepy midwest burgs, has gone state of the art. Watch Bessie walk into this makeshift salon to get her annual pedi. She's got a nasty in-grown and the husky guy in the overalls calls her honey while shaving her heels. How can a girl complain? Watch Here
January 28, 2007
Tie-a-Tie.net | Windsor Knot
A girl can always have this information handy in a pinch. Tie his tie and he'll feel pampered and petted. If he gets out of line, you can then proceed to strangle him with it.
A little side note: brain cells start dying after 5 minutes, so don't kill the bugger. Just make him think you could. Tie-a-Tie
A little side note: brain cells start dying after 5 minutes, so don't kill the bugger. Just make him think you could. Tie-a-Tie
Satisfy your "That is so Cute!" craving.
Pirate Girl Necklace
Etsy.com is a homemade goodies extravaganza. They sell everything from hand blown glassware to kitschy necklaces. The artists peddling their trinkets will personalize items for you, and the prices are surprisingly reasonable.
Put down that danish and click here.....NOW!
January 24, 2007
Sterilize Sponges in Microwave
I saw this on Boing Boing this morning. It made me think of that woman on Oprah a few years ago who used the same sponge for 15 years. Even more disgusting, she had the same bed sheets for the same amount of time, without washing them once. Ick.
BBC NEWS | Health | Microwave ovens sterilise sponges
BBC NEWS | Health | Microwave ovens sterilise sponges
December 9, 2006
Another reason to NOT be a Republican...as if you needed one.
Anyone who can use terms like "Halfrican" and other derogatory words like this have a vacuous hole in their heart where morality and decency used to live.
On the December 4 broadcast of San Francisco radio station KSFO's Sussman, Morgan & Vic, in speaking to a co-host -- apparently Brian Sussman -- co-host Melanie Morgan referred to Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) as an, "as you call, 'Halfrican.' " Sussman responded, "Halfrican ... his father was from Kenya, his mother's white." He added that, "in my opinion -- 'cause my opinion is your average white guy," Obama "is not allowed to wear the African-American badge because his family are not the descendants of slaves, OK? He can't identify with the discrimination and the slavery and all of that that's gone into these black families for generations."
Sussman also said, "I have ... nothing against mixed-race people," but later added, "I get offended and I know I have many black friends who get offended when he stands in front of that black audience talking like he's from the hood, born and raised, and ... can identify with all of their issues. He can't!"
From the December 4 edition of KSFO's Sussman, Morgan & Vic:
MORGAN: Senator Obama, who is, as you call, a 'Halfrican' --
SUSSMAN: Halfrican and, again, his father was -- his father was from Kenya, his mother's white. OK, now, I have nothing with mixed -- nothing against mixed-race people but, my point is, when this guy stands in front of a black audience, pretending like he was born and raised in the hood, and he can identify with their problems, he doesn't allow -- he is not, in my opinion -- 'cause my opinion is your average white guy -- he is not allowed to wear the African-American badge because his family are not the descendants of slaves, OK? He can't identify with the discrimination and the slavery and all of that that's gone into these black families for generations; he's a kid who was raised with a silver spoon in his mouth in a white family in Hawaii, OK? You wanna call me names for saying this? Go right ahead. I'm just telling you what the guy is.
MORGAN: Well --
TOM BENNER (aka "Officer Vic," KSFO morning traffic reporter): And you're not making this up. I mean, it's documented, for goodness sake. You can look it up.
SUSSMAN: I'm not making this up, so I just -- I get offended and I know I have many black friends who get offended when he stands in front of that black audience talking like he's from the hood, born and raised, and I can -- can identify with all of their issues. He can't!
MORGAN: Well, and guess what? It's working. It's working big-time.
—A.D.S.
November 30, 2006
The 100 Best Characters in Fiction Since 1900
Book Magazine, now defunct, compiled a panel of 55 authors, literary agents, editors, and actors in 2002 to “rank the top one hundred characters in literature since 1900.”
- Jay Gatsby, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925
- Holden Caulfield, The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger, 1951
- Humbert Humbert, Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov, 1955
- Leopold Bloom, Ulysses, James Joyce, 1922
- Rabbit Angstrom, Rabbit, Run, John Updike, 1960
- Sherlock Holmes, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1902
- Atticus Finch, To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee, 1960
- Molly Bloom, Ulysses, James Joyce, 1922
- Stephen Dedalus, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce, 1916
- Lily Bart, The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton, 1905
- Holly Golightly, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Truman Capote, 1958
- Gregor Samsa, The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka, 1915
- The Invisible Man, Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison, 1952
- Lolita, Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov, 1955
- Aureliano Buendia, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1967
- Clarissa Dalloway, Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf, 1925
- Ignatius Reilly, A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole, 1980
- George Smiley, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, John LeCarre, 1974
- Mrs. Ramsay, To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf, 1927
- Bigger Thomas, Native Son, Richard Wright, 1940
- Nick Adams, In Our Time, Ernest Hemingway, 1925
- Yossarian, Catch-22, Joseph Heller, 1961
- Scarlett O'Hara, Gone With the Wind Margaret Mitchell, 1936
- Scout Finch, To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee, 1960
- Philip Marlowe, The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler, 1939
- Kurtz, Heart of Darkness, , Joseph Conrad, 1902
- Stevens, The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro, 1989
- Cosimo Piovasco di Rondo, The Baron in the Trees, Italo Calvino,1957
- Winnie the Pooh, Winnie the Pooh, A. A. Milne, 1926
- Oskar Matzerath, The Tin Drum, Gunter Grass, 1959
- Hazel Motes, Wise Blood, Flannery O'Connor, 1952
- Alex Portnoy, Portnoy's Complaint, Philip Roth, 1969
- Binx Bolling, The Moviegoer, Walker Percy, 1961
- Sebastian Flyte, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, 1945
- Jeeves, My Man Jeeves, P. G. Wodehouse, 1919
- Eugene Henderson, Henderson the Rain King, Saul Bellow, 1959
- Marcel, Remembrance of Things Past, Marcel Proust, 1913–1927
- Toad, The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame, 1908
- The Cat in the Hat, The Cat in the Hat, Dr. Seuss, 1955
- Peter Pan, The Little White Bird, J. M. Barrie, 1902
- Augustus McCrae, Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry, 1985
- Sam Spade, The Maltese Falcon, , Dashiell Hammett, 1930
- Judge Holden, Blood Meridian Cormac McCarthy, 1985
- Willie Stark, All the King's Men, Robert Penn Warren, 1946
- Stephen Maturin, Master and Commander, Patrick O'Brian, 1969
- The Little Prince, The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, 1943
- Santiago, The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway, 1952
- Jean Brodie, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark, 1961
- The Whiskey Priest, The Power and the Glory, Graham Greene, 1940
- Neddy Merrill, The Swimmer, John Cheever, 1964
- Sula Peace, Sula, Toni Morrison, 1973
- Meursault, The Stranger, Albert Camus, 1942
- Jake Barnes, The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway, 1926
- Phoebe Caulfield, The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger, 1951
- Janie Crawford, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston,1937
- Antonia Shimerda, My Antonia, Willa Cather, 1918
- Grendel, Grendel, John Gardner, 1971
- Gulley Jimson, The Horse's Mouth, Joyce Cary, 1944
- Big Brother, 1984, George Orwell, 1949
- Tom Ripley, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Patricia Highsmith, 1955
- Seymour Glass, Nine Stories, J. D. Salinger, 1953
- Dean Moriarty, On the Road, Jack Kerouac, 1957
- Charlotte, Charlotte's Web, E. B. White, 1952
- T. S. Garp, The World According to Garp, John Irving, 1978
- Nick and Nora Charles, The Thin Man, Dashiell Hammett, 1934
- James Bond, Casino Royale, Ian Fleming, 1953
- Mr. Bridge, Mrs. Bridge, Evan S. Connell, 1959
- Geoffrey Firmin, Under the Volcano, Malcolm Lowry, 1947
- Benjy, The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner, 1929
- Charles Kinbote, Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov, 1962
- Mary Katherine Blackwood, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Shirley Jackson, 1962
- Charles Ryder, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, 1945
- Claudine, Claudine at School, Colette, 1900
- Florentino Ariza, Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1985
- George Follansbee Babbitt, Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis, 1922
- Christopher Tietjens, Parade's End, Ford Madox Ford, 1924–28
- Frankie Addams, The Member of the Wedding, Carson McCullers, 1946
- The Dog of Tears, Blindness, Jose Saramago, 1995
- Tarzan, Tarzan of the Apes, Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1914
- Nathan Zuckerman, My Life As a Man, Philip Roth, 1979
- Arthur “Boo” Radley,To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee, 1960
- Henry Chinaski, Post Office, Charles Bukowski, 1971
- Joseph K., The Trial, Franz Kafka, 1925
- Yuri Zhivago, Dr. Zhivago, EBoris Pasternak, 1957
- Harry Potter, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, J. K. Rowling, 1998
- Hana, The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje, 1992
- Margaret Schlegel, Howards End, E. M. Forster, 1910
- Jim Dixon, Lucky Jim, Kingsley Amis, 1954
- Maurice Bendrix, The End of the Affair, Graham Greene, 1951
- Lennie Small, Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck, 1937
- Mr. Biswas, A House for Mr. Biswas, V. S. Naipaul, 1961
- Alden Pyle, The Quiet American, Graham Greene, 1955
- Kimball “Kim” O'Hara, Kim, Rudyard Kipling, 1901
- Newland Archer, The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton, 1920
- Clyde Griffiths, An American Tragedy, Theodore Dreiser, 1925
- Eeyore, Winnie the Pooh, A. A. Milne, 1926
- Quentin Compson, The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner, 1929
- Charlie Marlow, Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad, 1902
- Celie, The Color Purple, Alice Walker, 1982
- Augie March, The Adventures of Augie March, Saul Bellow 1953
Source: Book Magazine, March/April 2002.
November 28, 2006
Yes...there really are people this ignorant in the world
I found this on The Morning News and had to share it....
The following are excerpts from actual one-star Amazon.com reviews of books from Time’s list of the 100 best novels from 1923 to the present. Some entries have been edited.
“Morrison’s obviously a good writer, but truly, her subject matter leaves a LOT to be desired in this book. It’s raunchy beyond belief. People do things with farm animals that they shouldn’t. I couldn’t get through the first two chapters without vomiting. Some things you just shouldn’t put in your head.”
“Basically all that happens is five people die on a small bridge and then the author goes on to discuss these people’s lives. What a BORE. Unless you’re some philosophical nerd, you will not enjoy this book at ALL. If I was the author of this book I’d tell myself to get a grip on the real world.”
“Obviously, a lot people were smoking a lot of weed in the ‘60s to think this thing is worth reading.”
“So many other good books…don’t waste your time on this one. J.D. Salinger went into hiding because he was embarrassed.”
“In the first 20 pages, Alex and his lackies beat a guy senseless and rob him; they steal a car and trash it, they get into a vicious gang fight; they attack a couple at their home, destroy the husband’s life work (his book, A Clockwork Orange), beat him and his wife senseless, and rape the wife. This really ticked me off.”
“My great-great-grandfather is not gay! I don’t know why this William Styron is trying to lie on my great-great-grandfather. Needless to say I am a descendant of Nat Turner and it bothers me that this author is trying to lie to make this book more interesting. I cannot say for certainty that my grandfather was not gay or that he didn’t like white women and neither can this author but I can say that Nat Turner was married and had children and I am a descendant of that union! Other than that idiotic portrayal the book was good.”
“Go tell it on the mountain was an extremely frustrating book. While the themes and some of the events were good (i.e., racism, abuse, religion), the way it was written made the book unenjoyable for me. I found that the way the book was written made it this way for others as well. I don’t think this is just a coincidence. If the book was written differently I probably would have found it enjoyable.”
“Well, it’s a girl’s world. The world of Gloria Steinem and the popular feminism, as distilled on TV (including CBC shows, not all fundamentalist Hollywood garbage) of my youth is GONE. Now the girls run the show. You’re not allowed to call them sluts. And it’s impossible to call them virgins. They’re all doing Rhett Butler. So what are they? Idiots… Hope you like the Gangstas. It’s what you deserve.”
“While the story did have a great moral to go along with it, it was about dirt! Dirt and migrating. Dirt and migrating and more dirt.”
“When one contrasts Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five with this book, it’s like comparing an Olympic sprinter with an obese man running for the bus with a hot dog in one hand and a soda in the other.”
“It grieves me deeply that we Americans should take as our classic a book that is no more than a lengthy description of the doings of fops.”
“I bought these books to have something nice to read to my grandkids. I had to stop, however, because the books are nothing more than advertisements for “Turkish Delight,” a candy popular in the U.K. The whole point of buying books for my grandkids was to give them a break from advertising, and here (throughout) are ads for this “Turkish Delight”! How much money is this Mr. Lewis getting from the Cadbury’s chocolate company anyway? This man must be laughing to the bank.”
“1) I’m bored. 2) He uses too many allusions to other novels, so that if you’re not well read, this book makes no sense. 3) Most American readers are not fluent in French, so to have conversations or interjections in French with no translation is plain dumb. 4) Did I mention I was bored? 5) As with another reviewer, I agree, he uses a lot of huge words that just slow a person down. And it’s not for theatrics either, it’s just huge words mid-sentence when describing something simple. Nothing in the sense of imagery is gained. 6) Also, to sum it up, it’s a story about a pedophile.”
“I am obsessed with Survivor, so I thought it would be fun. WRONG!!! It is incredibly boring and disgusting. I was very much disturbed when I found young children killing each other. I think that anyone with a conscience would agree with me.”
“The book is not readable because of the overuse of adverbs.”
“The only good thing to say about this “literary” drivel is that the person responsible, Virginia Woolf, has been dead for quite some time now. Let us pray to God she stays that way.”
“I’m a Steely Dan fan so naturally I wanted to read the book they thought compelling enough to name their band after an element of.”
“Well…someone who murders anyone…out of panic (which is a really stupid, irrational reason) does not deserve any sympathy. I felt the book was mainly about black people hating white people…as usual. Now, tell me anyone…if there was a book about a white person facing discrimination in Africa…or being killed because stones are thrown at them, then everyone would look down on them. Poorly written.”
“Don’t listen to anyone who tries to distinguish between “serious” works of literature like this one and allegedly “lesser” novels. The distinction is entirely illusory, because no novels are “better” than any others, and the concept of a “great novel” is an intellectual hoax. This book isn’t as good as Harry Potter in MY opinion, and no one can refute me. Tastes are relative!”
“This book gets my nomination for the most overrated book in American Literature. It is trite, saccharine and false. The themes and insights it contains are not even good enough to be third rate. Moreover, as a prose stylist, Kerouac was probably fourth rate. In short, I despise this piece of [garbage] and would advise all of its hipster doofus fans to lose the tie-dye clothes and throw away their bongs. Maybe then they will read something good for a change.”
“I guess if you were interested in crazy people this is the book for you.”
“In the novel, they often speak of a planet called Tralfamadore, where he was displayed in a zoo with a former movie star by the name of Montana Wildhack. I thought that the very concept of a man who was kidnapped by aliens was truly unbelievable and a tad ludicrous. I did not find the idea of aliens kidnapping a human and putting them in a zoo very plausible. While some of the Tralfamadorians’ concept of death and living in a moment would be comforting for a war veteran, I found it relatively odd. I do not believe that an alien can kidnap someone and house them in a zoo for years at a time, while it is only a microsecond on earth. I also do not believe that a person has seven parents.”
“This book is like an ungrateful girlfriend. You do your best to understand her and get nothing back in return.”
“Here’s the first half of the book: ‘We had dinner and a few drinks. We went to a cafe and talked and had some drinks. We ate dinner and had a few drinks. Dinner. Drinks. More dinner. More drinks. We took a cab here (or there) in Paris and had some drinks, and maybe we danced and flirted and talked sh*t about somebody. More dinner. More drinks. I love you, I hate you, maybe you should come up to my room, no you can’t’… I flipped through the second half of the book a day or two later and saw the words ‘dinner’ and ‘drinks’ on nearly every page and figured it wasn’t worth the risk.”
“I don’t see why this book is so fabulous. I would give it a zero. I find no point in writing a book about segregation, there’s no way of making it into an enjoyable book. And yes I am totally against segregation.”
“This book is one of the worst books I have ever read. I got to about page 3-4.”
The following are excerpts from actual one-star Amazon.com reviews of books from Time’s list of the 100 best novels from 1923 to the present. Some entries have been edited.
Beloved (1987)
Author: Toni Morrison“Morrison’s obviously a good writer, but truly, her subject matter leaves a LOT to be desired in this book. It’s raunchy beyond belief. People do things with farm animals that they shouldn’t. I couldn’t get through the first two chapters without vomiting. Some things you just shouldn’t put in your head.”
The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927)
Author: Thornton Wilder“Basically all that happens is five people die on a small bridge and then the author goes on to discuss these people’s lives. What a BORE. Unless you’re some philosophical nerd, you will not enjoy this book at ALL. If I was the author of this book I’d tell myself to get a grip on the real world.”
Catch-22 (1961)
Author: Joseph Heller“Obviously, a lot people were smoking a lot of weed in the ‘60s to think this thing is worth reading.”
The Catcher in the Rye (1951)
Author: J.D. Salinger“So many other good books…don’t waste your time on this one. J.D. Salinger went into hiding because he was embarrassed.”
A Clockwork Orange (1963)
Author: Anthony Burgess“In the first 20 pages, Alex and his lackies beat a guy senseless and rob him; they steal a car and trash it, they get into a vicious gang fight; they attack a couple at their home, destroy the husband’s life work (his book, A Clockwork Orange), beat him and his wife senseless, and rape the wife. This really ticked me off.”
The Confessions of Nat Turner (1967)
Author: William Styron“My great-great-grandfather is not gay! I don’t know why this William Styron is trying to lie on my great-great-grandfather. Needless to say I am a descendant of Nat Turner and it bothers me that this author is trying to lie to make this book more interesting. I cannot say for certainty that my grandfather was not gay or that he didn’t like white women and neither can this author but I can say that Nat Turner was married and had children and I am a descendant of that union! Other than that idiotic portrayal the book was good.”
Go Tell it on the Mountain (1953)
Author: James Baldwin“Go tell it on the mountain was an extremely frustrating book. While the themes and some of the events were good (i.e., racism, abuse, religion), the way it was written made the book unenjoyable for me. I found that the way the book was written made it this way for others as well. I don’t think this is just a coincidence. If the book was written differently I probably would have found it enjoyable.”
Gone With the Wind (1936)
Author: Margaret Mitchell“Well, it’s a girl’s world. The world of Gloria Steinem and the popular feminism, as distilled on TV (including CBC shows, not all fundamentalist Hollywood garbage) of my youth is GONE. Now the girls run the show. You’re not allowed to call them sluts. And it’s impossible to call them virgins. They’re all doing Rhett Butler. So what are they? Idiots… Hope you like the Gangstas. It’s what you deserve.”
The Grapes of Wrath (1939)
Author: John Steinbeck“While the story did have a great moral to go along with it, it was about dirt! Dirt and migrating. Dirt and migrating and more dirt.”
Gravity’s Rainbow (1973)
Author: Thomas Pynchon“When one contrasts Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five with this book, it’s like comparing an Olympic sprinter with an obese man running for the bus with a hot dog in one hand and a soda in the other.”
The Great Gatsby (1925)
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald“It grieves me deeply that we Americans should take as our classic a book that is no more than a lengthy description of the doings of fops.”
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (1950)
Author: C.S. Lewis“I bought these books to have something nice to read to my grandkids. I had to stop, however, because the books are nothing more than advertisements for “Turkish Delight,” a candy popular in the U.K. The whole point of buying books for my grandkids was to give them a break from advertising, and here (throughout) are ads for this “Turkish Delight”! How much money is this Mr. Lewis getting from the Cadbury’s chocolate company anyway? This man must be laughing to the bank.”
Lolita (1955)
Author: Vladimir Nabokov“1) I’m bored. 2) He uses too many allusions to other novels, so that if you’re not well read, this book makes no sense. 3) Most American readers are not fluent in French, so to have conversations or interjections in French with no translation is plain dumb. 4) Did I mention I was bored? 5) As with another reviewer, I agree, he uses a lot of huge words that just slow a person down. And it’s not for theatrics either, it’s just huge words mid-sentence when describing something simple. Nothing in the sense of imagery is gained. 6) Also, to sum it up, it’s a story about a pedophile.”
Lord of the Flies (1955)
Author: William Golding“I am obsessed with Survivor, so I thought it would be fun. WRONG!!! It is incredibly boring and disgusting. I was very much disturbed when I found young children killing each other. I think that anyone with a conscience would agree with me.”
The Lord of the Rings (1954)
Author: J.R.R. Tolkien“The book is not readable because of the overuse of adverbs.”
Mrs. Dalloway (1925)
Author: Virginia Woolf“The only good thing to say about this “literary” drivel is that the person responsible, Virginia Woolf, has been dead for quite some time now. Let us pray to God she stays that way.”
Naked Lunch (1959)
Author: William Burroughs“I’m a Steely Dan fan so naturally I wanted to read the book they thought compelling enough to name their band after an element of.”
Native Son (1940)
Author: Richard Wright“Well…someone who murders anyone…out of panic (which is a really stupid, irrational reason) does not deserve any sympathy. I felt the book was mainly about black people hating white people…as usual. Now, tell me anyone…if there was a book about a white person facing discrimination in Africa…or being killed because stones are thrown at them, then everyone would look down on them. Poorly written.”
1984 (1948)
Author: George Orwell“Don’t listen to anyone who tries to distinguish between “serious” works of literature like this one and allegedly “lesser” novels. The distinction is entirely illusory, because no novels are “better” than any others, and the concept of a “great novel” is an intellectual hoax. This book isn’t as good as Harry Potter in MY opinion, and no one can refute me. Tastes are relative!”
On the Road (1957)
Author: Jack Kerouac“This book gets my nomination for the most overrated book in American Literature. It is trite, saccharine and false. The themes and insights it contains are not even good enough to be third rate. Moreover, as a prose stylist, Kerouac was probably fourth rate. In short, I despise this piece of [garbage] and would advise all of its hipster doofus fans to lose the tie-dye clothes and throw away their bongs. Maybe then they will read something good for a change.”
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1962)
Author: Ken Kesey“I guess if you were interested in crazy people this is the book for you.”
Slaughterhouse-Five (1969)
Author: Kurt Vonnegut“In the novel, they often speak of a planet called Tralfamadore, where he was displayed in a zoo with a former movie star by the name of Montana Wildhack. I thought that the very concept of a man who was kidnapped by aliens was truly unbelievable and a tad ludicrous. I did not find the idea of aliens kidnapping a human and putting them in a zoo very plausible. While some of the Tralfamadorians’ concept of death and living in a moment would be comforting for a war veteran, I found it relatively odd. I do not believe that an alien can kidnap someone and house them in a zoo for years at a time, while it is only a microsecond on earth. I also do not believe that a person has seven parents.”
The Sound and the Fury (1929)
Author: William Faulkner“This book is like an ungrateful girlfriend. You do your best to understand her and get nothing back in return.”
The Sun Also Rises (1926)
Author: Ernest Hemingway“Here’s the first half of the book: ‘We had dinner and a few drinks. We went to a cafe and talked and had some drinks. We ate dinner and had a few drinks. Dinner. Drinks. More dinner. More drinks. We took a cab here (or there) in Paris and had some drinks, and maybe we danced and flirted and talked sh*t about somebody. More dinner. More drinks. I love you, I hate you, maybe you should come up to my room, no you can’t’… I flipped through the second half of the book a day or two later and saw the words ‘dinner’ and ‘drinks’ on nearly every page and figured it wasn’t worth the risk.”
To Kill a Mockingbird (1960)
Author: Harper Lee“I don’t see why this book is so fabulous. I would give it a zero. I find no point in writing a book about segregation, there’s no way of making it into an enjoyable book. And yes I am totally against segregation.”
Tropic of Cancer (1934)
Author: Henry Miller“This book is one of the worst books I have ever read. I got to about page 3-4.”
November 26, 2006
Lazy Sunday
As I've been loafing around today, scanning the net I ran across this link of a guy playing George Harrison's "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" on a ukulele. I was mesmerized watching this guy play one of my favorite songs. Today has been a little on grim side and at first I resisted looking at the link. I can't even explain why. I just think that sometimes that things we need to see or hear, we resist. So anyway...I made myself watch it and I'm so glad I did. I think you'll enjoy it too.
Ukulele sings the Beatles
Ukulele sings the Beatles
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